Warm congratulations to Dr. Sua Myong on her promotion to the rank of Full Professor this year! Since arriving in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics in 2015, Sua has continued […]
Sua Myong Promoted to Full Professor
News & Announcements Archive
Dr. Lior Shachaf Defends Thesis
On May 20th, Jenkins Biophysics Program graduate Lior Shachaf successfully defended his thesis titled: “Gene Regulatory Network Inference Using k-Nearest-Neighbor Based Mutual Information And Three-Node Network Classification Using Dimensionality Reduction […]
Congratulations Biophysics Class of 2022!
On Saturday, May 21st, the Department of Biophysics held a reception to celebrate it’s 42 graduating students including Melanie Alfonzo Horowitz, Ethan Bernstein, Gretchen Belotte, Harshit Bhasin, Elias Boussouf, David […]
Three Biophysics students win undergraduate research award
Harshit Bhasin, Yuekang Zhang and Hantian “Maggie” Lee won 2022 undergraduate research rewards to fund their work.
Karen Fleming named 2022 Biophysical Society Fellow
Professor Karen Fleming was named as one of the Biophysical Society’s 2022 Class of Fellows, which honors members society members who have demonstrated sustained excellence in science and have contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics. Fleming was selected for rigorous and incisive contributions to the understanding of the thermodynamics of membrane protein folding, and for her tireless devotion to promoting gender equity in science.
Taekjip Ha elected to National Academy of Medicine
Professor Taekjip Ha is one of 10 Johns Hopkins faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine 2021. He was elected for his work co-inventing the single-molecule FRET (smFRET) technology […]
Prof. Karen Fleming inducted into first-ever ASBMB fellows class
Biophysics professor Karen Fleming has been inducted into the first ever class of ASBMB fellows. ASBMB fellows are recognized for their meritorious efforts to advance the molecular life sciences through sustained […]
5 Biophysics Majors in 2020-2021 receive the PURA award
Chelsey Chen, Daniel Habib, Elizabeth Mensah, Harshit Bhasin, and Joseph Yoniles were awarded the prestigious PURA award. PURA is the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award established in 1993 to encourage Hopkins undergraduate students to engage in […]
When Hands-on Learning Isn’t an Option
Before COVID-19, Jaime Sorenson, biophysics lecturer, had long wanted to create videos of some basic biophysics techniques so that students would be able to learn at their own pace, re-watching […]
Praise for an Outstanding Biophysicist, Our Chair, Doug Barrick
Prof. Doug Barrick will receive the Biophysics Society, Emily M. Gray Award for his “masterpiece textbook” on Biomolecular Thermodynamics. He is one of ten biophysicists who will be honored at […]